Introduction:
The usefulness of serial measurement of BNP to reduce hospitalization or mortality in patients with HIV and heartfailure is unknown.
Hypothesis:
We sought to describe changes in B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and estimate the effect of HIV on BNP over a week of observation in an acute heart failure cohort of 40 HIV-infected adults (≥18 years) on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and 175 HIV-uninfected hospitalized patients in Uganda.
Methods:
We measured BNP using i-STAT BNP (Abbott point of care, Princeton, New Jersey) and compared changes by HIV serostatus, and evaluated BNP as a predictor of all-cause mortality at 30 days from hospitalization using multilevel mixed and competitive risk regression models respectively.
Results:
Overall HIV-infected participants had a higher mean BNP than HIV-uninfected counterparts. After initial declines in BNP in both groups between day 0 and day 3, BNP moderately increased among the HIV-infected on day 7 and continued to decline in the HIV-uninfected group. Each 1 pg/mL increase in baseline BNP from 400 pg/mL increased the risk of all-cause mortality within 30 days by 1% (adjusted standardized hazard ratio (aSHR) 1.01, 95%CI 1.01, 1.01). Other predictors of increased 30-day all-cause mortality included smoking (aSHR 1.99, 95%CI 1.04, 3.84), hypotension (aSHR 1.69, 95%CI 1.26, 2.26) and renal failure stage 3 (aSHR 2.06, 95%CI 1.34, 3.18), and renal failure stage 5 (aSHR 2.02, 95%CI 1.30, 3.13). We found a lower risk of 30-day all-cause mortality of 38% (95%CI 20%, 73%) for those receiving loop diuretics and 74% (95%CI 56%, 99%) for antiplatelet agents.
Conclusions:
Over a week of observation, HIV-infected people hospitalized with acute heart failure in Uganda have higher BNP levels than HIV-uninfected counterparts. Increases in BNP above the upper bound of the normal predicted heightened risk of all-cause mortality within 30 days of hospitalization.
Molecular ratio of mature B‐type natriuretic peptide in acute heart failure: an indicator for ventricular contractile recovery
